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Jess Weatherbed

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    “It’s a Super Bowl-like audience that we were able to draw for this fight.”

    Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos spoke during the UBS conference about technical issues that impacted the Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight, and said the company is interested in doing more “big scale live events” like the upcoming Christmas Day Games.

    “We were stressing the limits of the internet itself that night. So we had a control room up in Silicon Valley that was re-engineering the entire internet to keep it during this fight because of the unprecedented demand that was happening.”

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    Jess Weatherbed
    OpenAI closed Sora applications shortly after launch.

    A message currently displayed on the signup page says that account creation is temporarily unavailable due to heavy traffic. On X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company had “significantly underestimated demand” and that it’ll take a while to get everyone access to Sora.

    Well that didn’t take long...
    Well that didn’t take long...
    Image: OpenAI / The Verge
    AI is booming on the App Store, and developers are taking advantage of it

    Many high-ranking AI apps feel like an attempted cash grab, and it’s not easy to spot the trash from the treasure.

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    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Apple keeps its App Store restrictions in Brazil...for now.

    A federal court overturned an injunction on Thursday that would have forced Apple to allow alternative payment systems and enable sideloading on iOS for Brazilian users within 20 days.

    Brazil’s antitrust regulator can appeal the ruling and investigations are still ongoing, which means Apple may still need to introduce similar changes to those it rolled out in the EU.